TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 149, 26 June 1922, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

' Moepki will turivo from Sydney at. 4.30 this afternoon. . Australiaa University team defeated Auckland by 18 to 7. Waimana due at Wellington on Thursday from Southampton. New Zealand butter is still soaring in London. Latest advance to 230/. In the 48 hours ended 9 o'clock thiSjmorning 54 points of rain fell in,the'' city. ' St' Annual parado of the St. John Ambulanco Association at St. Matthews' yesterday. Second "SocaSr" test between Australia and New Zealand resulted in a draw, one goal cach. Germany's Minister pf Foreign Affairs, Dr. Rathenau, has (been murdered iff. Monarchists. Niagara from Sydney early this morning. Sails at 11 a,m. to-morrow £or Suva and Vancouver. Two brothcre namsd CStaafe drank weed killer for port wine at Hastings. One of them iB dead. Ex-Civil servant, W. X Wai-d, arrested ».i Wellington charged with stealing Government documents. Last night's Main Trunk express hold up for nearly threo hours at Whangamarino by engine tronhle. Mr. Lloyd George says that Britain is ready to support tho admission of Germany to the League of Nations. About 40 tons of cargo from the Wiltshire brought to Auckland by the scow Wanderer on Saturday afternoon. Heaviest shocks yet felt in the present series of Taupo earthquakes occurred on Saturday night and yesterday •morning. An elderly resident of Devonport collapsed 3nd died on his way across to work this morning, heart disease being the cause. The former Australian Commonwealth' Commissioner /> the United States, Sir Mark Sheldon, is e, through passenger by the Niagara. Sir Harry Wilson is to (be buried in St. Paul's. The ."Daily Mail"-Bays thattliere is an organised conspiracy to terrorise' British people. Flags half-masted on the Government and municipal buildings 1 to-day., out of respect to tho memory of the murdered field marshal, Sir Henry Wilson. The scow Hacre, from Hokiang.l to Auckland, a&ore seven miles from the Capo Maria Van Diemen light. Crew all safe and vessel high and dry on beach. Assassination' of high prices! Never before, never again, have such drastic reductions been made in priues of munificent high-grado fur coats and furs, as at the Empire Farriers, opposite Town Hall door. —(Ad.) £10,000 stock offered at Ci.iH-prico (overstocked) .—David Silk, Jeweller, Queen Street—(Ad.) If you need "an excuse for the glass" drink to Old Father Time, who gavo "Sandy Mac" its mellow flavour.—(Ad.);